---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001728951-24-000079"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "EPRT"
cik: "0001728951"
company_name: "ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T00:59:54.956129+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Essential Properties Realty Trust shareholders elect all director nominees, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditor

## Summary
- All seven director nominees elected, with each receiving over 144 million votes for.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved: 149.9M for vs 3.2M against.
- Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as auditor for 2024 approved: 149.9M for vs 8.5M against.
- 93.5% of outstanding shares were voted at the May 13, 2024 annual meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001728951-24-000079
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: EPRT
- cik: 0001728951
- company_name: ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-14T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895124000079/0001728951-24-000079-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895124000079/eprt-20240513.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC. shareholders approved Election of seven director nominees to serve until the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders at the 2024-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-13
  source text: At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders elected, by the vote indicated below, the following seven persons as directors of the Company
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895124000079/0001728951-24-000079-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC. shareholders approved Approval, on an advisory basis, of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers at the 2024-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-13
  source text: the Company’s stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895124000079/0001728951-24-000079-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES REALTY TRUST, INC. shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024 at the 2024-05-13 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-13
  source text: the stockholders ratified the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1728951/000172895124000079/0001728951-24-000079-index.htm

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